Definition of Assistant

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Assistant

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

An attendant; one who is present.

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Assistant Quotations

A manager is an assistant to his men.
Thomas J. Watson

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
Darrell Royal

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
Sonia Sotomayor

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
Tommy Cooper

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.
Steve Spurrier

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.
Don Shula

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
Jane Fonda

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.
Mark Messier

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.
John Frankenheimer

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.
Kevin J. Anderson

Assistant Translations

assistant in Afrikaans is assistent
assistant in Danish is assistent
assistant in Dutch is assistent, adjunct, helper
assistant in German is Assistent {m}, Mitarbeiter {m}, Helfer
assistant in Italian is collaboratore, assistente, aiutante
assistant in Portuguese is assistente
assistant in Spanish is asistente, ayudante, colaborador

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